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Microsoft delivers gut punch to PC charities with end of Windows 10
Unless Microsoft changes its mind at the last minute, Windows 10 will stop receiving free security updates this coming October. For those who can upgrade to Windows 11, the solution is obvious: Run the new OS even if you don’t like it. But there are hundreds of millions – by one estimate 240 million –…
Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting
The following guest post from digital humanities scholar Nichole Misako Nomura is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now. Punch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t just history—they’re still used by knitting machines today! Thanks to the…
Hugging Face shows how test-time scaling helps small language models punch above their weight
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a new case study, Hugging Face researchers have demonstrated how small language models (SLMs) can be configured to outperform much larger models. Their findings show that a Llama 3 model with 3B parameters can outperform…